Workers no better off

THE Aquino administration likes to brag that the business environment has improved remarkably since it took over almost six years ago. That may be true but the plight of workers has not.

A lot of Filipinos are still worried about the same things as before: jobs and food on their tables. And the government still has the same problem: how to make the country’s relatively good economy matter to most people who are barely eking out a living or are downright desperate.